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As of the writing of this guide, approximately 80% of the world’s population owns their own cellphone. Out of those, 1.08 billion are smartphones. If you’re reading this, chances are you either took a wrong turn on Google or you’re one of the proud legions of users that have incorporated their phones into nearly every aspect of their day-to-day life. You probably shopped around quite a while trying to find the best deal, perhaps read some reviews, quizzed your friends about which model they thought was best, and at some point amidst all that, you must have stumbled with the term “Rooting” and quickly dismissed it as some tech mumbo-jumbo; who has time to mess around with a perfectly good smartphone that can already handle everything you throw at it?